How to Prepare Perfect Cube Steak & Gravy Instant Pot IP

Cube Steak & Gravy Instant Pot IP. Cube steak or cubed steak is a cut of beef, usually top round or top sirloin, tenderized and flattened by pounding with a meat tenderizer. The name refers to the shape of the indentations left by that process (called "cubing"). This is the most common cut of meat used for the American dish chicken fried steak.

Cube Steak is as tender as can be and irresistible when smothered in a quick gravy made from onion soup mix—easy, simple, and hearty. To cook cube steak in a skillet, rinse the steak with cool water and pat it dry with paper towels, then sprinkle each side of the steak with salt and pepper. Cube steak, sometimes labeled as cubed steak or minute steak, is an inexpensive, flavorful cut of beef that's pre-tenderized. You can have Cube Steak & Gravy Instant Pot IP using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Cube Steak & Gravy Instant Pot IP

1. You need of Dredge.
2. It's 1/2 cup of flour (ap).
3. It's 1 tsp. of Salt.
4. Prepare 1 tsp. of Pepper.
5. It's 2 tsp. of Garlic powder.
6. You need 1/4-1/2 tsp. of Cayenne (optional).
7. You need of Main.
8. It's 3/4 pounds of cube steak.
9. You need 1 of gravy packet.
10. It's 1/2 of large onion.
11. You need 1 tsp. of Salt.
12. It's 1 tsp. of Pepper.
13. It's 1/4-1/2 tsp. of Cayenne (optional).
14. It's 1 1/2-2 cups of broth.

Because cube steak doesn't include a whole lot of fat or marbling—it's a lean cut—your steak won't contain a lot of fat by itself. Cube steak is a cut of beef tenderized by fierce pounding with a meat tenderizer, or use of an electric tenderizer. Season steak with salt and pepper then dredge through flour mixture making sure not to coat the meat too heavily. This was the best Cube Steak, that I have EVER HAD.

Cube Steak & Gravy Instant Pot IP step by step

1. Mix dredge ingredients in whatever container you wish..
2. Cut your cube steak how you like, I like bite sized pieces..
3. I just toss it in the dredge until coated..
4. Chop half an onion, I like this long, but do what you like..
5. Set your IP to saute.
6. Add 2-3 Tbl. Oil to the liner. Once hot, put in your floured meat and brown it..
7. Once your meat is just browned, add your onions..
8. Keep stirring until the onions just turn a little.
9. I happened to buy this gravy, use what you like..
10. Add your gravy and broth to the mix in the liner. Give it a stir..
11. Set your IP to pressure cook for 15 minutes.
12. Quick Release (QR) pressure when time is up.
13. Stir the contents, check the gravy. You may add a corn starch slurry now, if you want it thicker, or take a stick blender to it if that's the way you roll. Mine was thinner than I like, but my wife requested thinner gravy this go round, she won 😉.
14. We served this with a potato and cauliflower mash which is posted also..

I've always dredged cube steak in flour, salt and pepper and pan fried. Make your onions FIRST : Here is a quick tutorial on how to make Cube Steak (even grass-fed) is pretty cheap so stock up. Once you cook this recipe, it will quickly. Cube steak recipes may not appear beautiful, but boy are they tasty. This recipe is seriously so easy and delicious.